Katerina Tikhonova

The US slapped sanctions against two daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin - Katerina Tikhonova And Mariya Putina. Mariya Putina is eldest of the ...

New Delhi: The US announced fresh set of sanctions against Russia where two adult daughters of President Vladimir Putin – Katerina Tikhonova And Mariya Putina – were targeted. The Kremlin has only ever identified them by their first names. Asked why the US was targeting Putin’s daughters, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the US thought they could be in control of some of their father’s assets.

Details about Katerina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova have long been shrouded in secrecy. The U.S. says Putin's two daughters — one a doctor, the other a ...

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From a childhood spent in Germany to their billionaire husbands, Juliana Piskorz dives into the lives of Putin's daughters.

A year after the wedding, Putin’s great friend and Katerina’s new father-in-law, Nikolai Shamalov received a 17 per cent stake in Russia’s biggest petrochemicals company Sibur. Soon after the incident, Urin was arrested and jailed for six years, with all six of his banks declared bankrupt. Meanwhile, Maria completed a PHD in endocrinology at Moscow State University and is a co-owner of a Russian private healthcare investment company called Nomenko. Maria married Dutch businessman Jorrit Faassen in 2013, living with him in a penthouse in Voorschoten in western Holland, before moving back to Moscow in 2014. But their lives are not all work and no play, during her studies Katerina developed a passion for acrobatic rock’n’roll, an unusual form of dance involving stunts and gymnastics. Unlike his one-time supporter and political counterpart Donald Trump, Putin has worked hard to keep his offspring off the world stage, never acknowledging their existence except for telling director Oliver Stone in a 2017 interview that “they are not interested in business or politics.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin's two daughters are among those sanctioned Wednesday in the latest round of US and European economic penalties over ...

“Some of them are responsible for providing the support necessary to underpin Putin’s war on Ukraine. This action cuts them off from the U.S. financial system and freezes any assets they hold in the United States.” The couple was married for nearly 30 years before divorcing in 2013. The European Union enacted similar sanctions against the daughters.

The Russian leader's daughters have led elusive lives, away from the public eye. However, Vladimir Putin's military actions in Ukraine has put the spotlight ...

The Ukrainian prosecutor-general’s office has described one room discovered in Bucha as a “torture chamber.” According to the BBC, Vorontsova reportedly has a 20 per cent stake along with four other owners. The Russian war on Ukraine continues to rage on Day 43 and shows no signs of abating. In 2019, the elusive daughter had given an interview with state-owned TV channel Russia 1 during which she dropped interesting information about her life. But even in this case, there is a limit: private life, which no one has the right to trespass. In 2008, he was quoted by New York Times as saying, "Society has the right to know how public figures live.

Katerina Tikhonova, 35, and Mariya Vorontsova, 36, have now been targeted for the next tranche of sanctions.

Katerina Tikhonova, 35, and Mariya Vorontsova, 36, have now been targeted for the next tranche of sanctions, a senior Biden administration official said. US President Joe Biden said the sanctions were a direct response to the killings of civilians in Bucha. Katerina Tikhonova, 35, and Mariya Vorontsova, 36, have now been targeted for the next tranche of sanctions

Who are Vladimir Putin's daughters? Why Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova face sanctions for Ukraine war. Here's what you need to know about the Russian ...

She also used to compete in acrobatic rock’n’roll dance contests. Ms Tikhonova is an academic who was appointed to run an artificial intelligence institute at Moscow State University in 2020. She was born in Leningrad.

"They live in Russia...I am proud of them," Putin said about his two daughters in 2015.

They are into science and education," Putin said when asked about his daughters. Since Russia announced a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, war has continued to rage between the two nations. "They are not into politics and they aren't into corporate business. They just live their own lives." My daughters speak three European languages fluently." Bloomberg also reported that the European Union was planning to sanction Putin's daughters, citing unnamed sources.

All U.S. entities will be barred from transactions with them, with the exception of the energy sector. Putin's daughters, Mariya Putina and Katerina Tikhonova, ...

EU leaders have already endorsed the goal of phasing out its reliance on all Russian fossil fuels by 2027. One option short of an outright oil ban would be to phase out Russian oil and use Europe’s strategic oil reserves to cushion the impact, says a senior EU official. The EU isn’t planning to sanction oil or gas for now, despite intense pressure to inflict more economic pain on Moscow, the people said. The European Commission is also proposing to ban most Russian trucks and ships from entering the bloc, von der Leyen said, with exceptions allowed for agricultural products, humanitarian aid and energy. The proposals also includes sanctions on Putin’s daughters. Article content Moscow has denied that its armed forces committed atrocities in Ukraine. Article content Article content Sanctioning Putin’s daughters, Katerina and Maria, is largely a symbolic move since it’s unclear they have significant assets outside of Russia, but it’s designed to get the president’s attention. Article content Article content

While the Russian President has only ever acknowledged his two eldest daughters, he is thought to have four more children with former gymnast Alina Kabaeva.

The proposed list from the EU also includes a number of other individuals, including political figures, propagandists and tycoons as well as their family members. The draft list, seen by the news outlet, will also reportedly name Alexander Shulgin, Boris Rotenberg and Said Kerimov, as well as the Russian President’s daughters. The EU also states: “Financial measures were also adopted against persons responsible for the misappropriation of Ukrainian State funds, and persons responsible for human rights violations in Ukraine.” Since 2014, the EU has progressively imposed sanctions against Russia, initially in response to “the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol and the deliberate destabilisation of Ukraine”. Alongside the announcement of the new sanctions package, it was also revealed that “ further listings of individuals” are also to be proposed - and according to reports, these individuals could include Putin’s daughters. According to reports from the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, both the EU and the US are discussing the possibility of sanctioning Putin’s daughters.

In response to Ukraine's invasion, the US slapped sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin's daughters, Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova, ...

But will Putin hold talks? Zelensky says Ukraine had 'no option but to negotiate' with Russia to end war. Putin's daughters are named Maria and Katerina. While Maria was born in Leningrad in 1985, Katerina was born in Germany in 1986.